Rogues’ Galleries – Reviewed
With high streets taking a hit from the recession, Chester finds a novel way of injecting life back into empty spaces … If you’re in Chester to do a bit of shopping, you...
If Only…! – Reviewed
Taking place on the anniversary of the Bluecoat’s reopening, C James Fagan reflects on the most recent If Only…! Last weekend saw the fifth anniversary of the reopening of the Bluecoat which, fact...
How Do You Feel?
C James Fagan finds that rarest of things: a performance piece it’s ok to laugh at… How do you feel? How do you feel about your body? That phrase is bouncing around my...
In Defence of Criticism
Lately, we’ve found ourselves on the receiving end of hurt feelings. We outline why it’s sometimes hard, but so important, to retain standards and therefore credibility… Writing critically, dispensing balanced, well-argued opinion...
Mishka Henner:
Precious Commodities
Nothing is what it seems in the Open Eye Gallery’s latest exhibition… Arriving at the Open Eye Gallery for the latest exhibition, Mishka Henner’s Precious Commodities, you could be forgiven a genuine cartoon-style...
Home Is Where The Art Is
International artwork in a flat in Toxteth? We are invited into an exhibition with a twist … It’s quite weird to be greeted into an exhibition by someone wearing pyjamas. But it’s not...
Kayfabemania: Wrestling Unmasked
Could we take Kayfabemania, an exhibition about wrestling, more seriously than we take the sport itself? Wrestling. It’s perhaps not the most obvious of themes for an exhibition, but a quartet of Liverpool-based...
Profile – Photographer Edith Tudor-Hart
The latest Open Eye Gallery archive exhibition highlights the life and times of Edith Tudor-Hart, photographer and spy… Edith Tudor-Hart’s was a name which until Friday, we’re ashamed to say, we were –...
Happy Anniversaries!
With cuts beginning to bite, we take a look at a remarkable cluster of anniversaries in Liverpool’s arts sector… Funny how things coincide; you’d almost believe that some colossal level of planning and...